Reprove vs Critical - What's the difference?
reprove | critical |
to express disapproval.
to criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, Proverbs IX.8:
to prevent, avoid, deny or suppress (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.).
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 856:
Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
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Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
Extremely important.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
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(lb) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
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Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
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Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
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A critical value, factor, etc.
* 1976 , American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Journal of engineering for industry (volume 98, page 508)
* 2008 , John J. Coyle, C. John Langley, Brian Gibson, Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective (page 564)
As a verb reprove
is to express disapproval.As an adjective critical is
inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.As a noun critical is
a critical value, factor, etc.reprove
English
Verb
(reprov)- Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
- She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* reproof * reprovalcritical
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Adjective
(en adjective)Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
Derived terms
{{der3, criticality , critically , criticalness , critical angle , critical mass , critical point , critical thinking , mission-critical , pseudocritical , supercritical}}See also
* (wikipedia "critical") * (Medical state)Noun
(en noun)- The second undamped system criticals show a greater percentage depression than the first.
- Finally, criticals are high-risk, high-value items that give the final product a competitive advantage in the marketplace Criticals, in part, determine the customer's ultimate cost of using the finished product — in our example, the computer.
